But this is Coldplay, and they are seldom tongue-in-cheek on record. Like their use of Kraftwerk’s “Computer Love” to augment the 2005 “X&Y” track “Talk,” the band builds “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” upon a piano lick from Peter Allen’s 1976 hit “I Go to Rio.”Unlike the tasteful transposition of a “Computer Love” synth line into catchy guitar riff to supplement “Talk,” here the preponderance of Allen’s piano filtered through a rave-y filter just elicits head-scratching befuddlement, a sort of wonderment at whether the band could possibly be serious in hinging their lead single on such a cheesy lost song from the ’70s. The improbable influence on “Every Teardrop” is also a mark against it. Though the song builds to a decent ending, its ridiculously saccharine title destabilizes the song’s impact from the start.
The EP’s title track is Coldplay by numbers. As it stands, it’s not necessarily the most promising of previews, and makes it feel like the three-and-a-half-year wait may not have been worth it. What we do have is this - the “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”EP, a three-song teaser of what’s to come later this year (supposedly in September). Add Martin’s album-release plans to the ever-growing list of Coldplay’s similarities to U2 just like Bono is notoriously unreliable when discussing prospective release dates, it seems Martin was a bit off the mark considering it is now mid-2011 and we still do not have that next full-length. After that, frontman Chris Martinannounced he was aiming to have another Coldplay album about before the end of 2009, to close out the decade with some new music.
About six months later, they released the supplementary EP “Prospekt’s March,”which was of a slightly lesser quality but offered up a handful of new songs and a few alternate takes on some “Viva la Vida” tracks.
Not too long after the release of their last full-length, 2008’s excellent “Viva la Vida or Death and All of his Friends,” Coldplayseemed to be in a prolific mood.
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